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Web Design in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference 1st Edition

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Web Design in a Nutshell contains the nitty-gritty on everything you need toknow to design Web pages. It's the good stuff, without the fluff, written andorganized so that answers can be found quickly. Written by veteran Web designerJennifer Niederst, this book provides quick access to the wide range of front-endtechnologies and techniques from which Web designers and authors must draw.

It is an excellent reference for HTML 4.0 tags (including tables, frames, andCascading Style Sheets) with special attention given to browser support and platformidiosyncrasies. The HTML section is more than a reference work, though. It detailsstrange behavior in tables, for instance, and gives ideas and workarounds for usingtables and frames on your site. Web Design in a Nutshell also coversmultimedia and interactivity, audio and video, and emerging technologies like DynamicHTML, XML, embedded fonts, and internationalization.

The book includes:

Discussions of the Web environment, monitors, and browsers
A complete reference to HTML and Server Side Includes, including browsersupport for every tag and attribute
Chapters on creating GIF, JPEG and PNG graphics, including designing with theWeb Palette
Information on multimedia and interactivity, including audio, video, Flash,Shockwave, and JavaScript
Detailed tutorial and reference on Cascading Style Sheets, including anappendix of browser compatibility information
Appendices detailing HTML tags, attributes, deprecated tags, proprietary tags,and CSS compatibility

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1565925157
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978-1565925151
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1st
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O'Reilly Media
Publication date

November 11, 1998
Language

English
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6 x 1.14 x 9 inches
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578 pages
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Are you a print designer working on the Web? An HTML coder learning about server-side hosting for the first time? Web Design in a Nutshell has slim but whole chapters for those topics-- and everything else you can imagine.

Written in the popular "Nutshell" format, this guide is full of helpful tables and lists, making it a perfect desktop reference. The book breaks down the huge topic of Web site development into understandable, readable segments: the Web environment (browsers, displays, design principles), an in-depth guide to HTML tags, graphics manipulation and display, multimedia possibilities, and technologies for larger site management (such as Cascading Style Sheets [CSS] and XML).

While this book is certainly comprehensive, the abundance of information could be overwhelming to someone just starting out with HTML. In addition, the heart of this book is filled with technical specificity on Web page creation (for example, a section under "Graphics" is titled "GIF87a versus GIF89a"). Readers looking for more conceptual explanations of Web design and layout would be better served with other titles. But for day-to-day development and maintenance, Web Design in a Nutshell is a truly well-constructed toolkit.

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Niederst discusses everything a web designer needs, from basic principles and HTML to designing for multiple browsers, cascading style sheets, and XML. For a working web designer this book will be an invaluable quick reference, and it is written well enough that someone just starting out on the web could also use it. Highly recommended for all libraries.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ O'Reilly Media; 1st edition (November 11, 1998)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 578 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1565925157
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1565925151
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.7 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.14 x 9 inches

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Jennifer Niederst Robbins got started designing for the Web in 1993 as the graphic designer for Global Network Navigator (GNN), the first commercial website published by O'Reilly. She has been writing books about web design since 1995, including Learning Web Design, Web Design in a Nutshell, and the HTML5 Pocket Reference. Jennifer has spoken at many conferences and has taught beginning web design at Massachusetts College of Art and Johnson & Wales University. She now uses her web technology know-how in the design and development of mobile apps and other digital products at O'Reilly Media.
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As would be expected from a former manager of the Web Standards Project, Aaron Gustafson has been working to make the web more equitable for nearly three decades now.
As a web designer, developer, and consultant, Aaron has worked with a number of companies you’ve probably heard of. In 2015, he joined Microsoft as a web standards advocate to work closely with their browser team, where he established the developer-engagement platform the Web We Want and worked to chart the future of Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) as a member of the W3C’s Web Applications Working Group, an editor of several PWA-related specifications, and author of numerous feature proposals. In 2022, Aaron shifted his focus to leading Microsoft’s AI for Accessibility grant program, where he identifies and funds innovations in accessibility on a global scale.
Aaron loves to share his knowledge and insights in written form. His three-part series on progressive enhancement for A List Apart is a perennial favorite and his seminal book on the subject, Adaptive Web Design, earned him numerous accolades and honors. When he’s not writing, Aaron is frequently on the road presenting at conferences and running workshops across the globe.
You can find out more about Aaron at aaron-gustafson.com.
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J. Esteban

It seems to follow me where ever I go.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 25, 2000

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If you looking for immediate answers to isolated questions. Then you'll love this book. It's indexed by tag name, attribute and normal keywords. At the same time the chapters develop logically starting from basic HTML page layout and moving into working with text, tables, frames and forms. There's a few sections on graphics and colors, and a brief sprinkling of server issues and some Javascript. Each section generally starts out with a brief description of each tag including a summary of all attributes and browser compatibility. This is followed by a more tutorial approach in which greater insight is provided into the usage and interaction of tags and attributes. This helps to develop a more conceptualized understanding of the topic at hand. In my opinion the topics were developed out of a sense of "How do I accomplish the presentation needs I will run into in trying to develop websites attractive and easy to navigate?" So for example Javascript is not covered in any great detail. The basic intent was to provide a simple example of how one would use events such as OnMouseOver and OnMouseOut inorder to describe how to build rollover buttons. The sketch of the an otter on the front cover of this book is truly appropriate for me. I always imagine the otter saying to all of his programming buddies. Hey summarize all that stuff in all of those books because I like to travel light and have fun and I don't want to carry what I don't need.

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Be sure to get the most current edition

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 31, 2009

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My first review of this book:

One star only because it was required. I searched for the 3rd edition of this book, was shown a list of new and used titles that didn't indicate the edition, selected one, and was sent the original edition, which is useless to me. Why don't the sellers display the edition? Why doesn't Amazon manage this better? I am extremely dissatisfied and will not use Amazon in the future when edition is important.

My final review of this book:

The 3rd edition is excellent. I bought it (from another source) because it was required for a class at the local community college. I still use it for reference. Highly recommended.

My apologies to the community, and my thanks to the two reviewers who chastised me, for my first review. :-)

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Jables VanBuren

Arrived as described

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 27, 2010

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Book was exactly as it was described. Got to me pretty quickly. Good deal too - way less expensive than Borders or Barnes and Noble.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 30, 2000

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Don't design without it. Deeper than a quick reference, but lighter than a full manual. It has increased my skills tremendously!

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Frank Carver

Can be useful, but mainly about web PAGE design

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 1, 2003

Maybe it's because I'm primarily a web software developer and not a graphic artist, but I just can't empathise with a lot of the glowing reviews for this book.
I bought this as a companion to the excellent "Webmaster in a Nutshell", but was somewhat disappointed. It seems at first glance to be packed with useful stuff, but the core of day-to-day material on HTML, JavaScript, SSI, CSS and so on is virtually the same as in "Webmaster in a Nutshell", and the rest is mostly hand-waving introductions to topics such as streaming audio and video on the web or, strangely, an Adobe Photoshop tutorial.
Even stranger, the one topic it doesn't seem to cover is web design (as I understand the term). There's nothing about how to create interesting, useful, impressive or "sticky" sites, and precious little about page layout, navigation or information architecture.
My recommendation would have to be to think about this book if you want some the tools to pretty-up a page or two, but buy "Webmaster in a Nutshell" for the nuts and bolts, and then look for a decent "web design" book which is actually about web design rather than just web page construction.

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Comprehensive but Outdated

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 30, 2001

I'm amazed at the range of topics covered by this book, especially because it was published in early 1999. It contains information on HTML 4, PNG, animated GIFs, multimedia, JavaScript, dynamic HTML, and XML. There are several noticable gaps, however. For example, the <!DOCTYPE> tag is not described, and information on character sets is very limited. But almost everything that most web developers need to know is covered.
The book's biggest weakness is that much has changed in the past two years. HTML 4.01, XHTML, Java servlets, MNG (animated PNGs), Internet Explorer 5.5, and Netscape 6 have appeared. Of course, this book doesn't mention any of these. If you want to stay informed of the latest technologies, you'll have to buy a more up-to-date book in addition to this one.

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Good way to learn quickly how to move first steps in HTML language. Secondhand book in good conditions, good deal and excellent price!

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